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Look up Erzya or Erzyan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Erzya or Erzia may refer to: Erzya language, a Uralic language spoken in Russia Erzya literature

The Erzyas (also Erzyans, Erzya people; Erzya: эрзят, romanized: erzat, Russian: эрзяне, romanized: erzyane) are one of the Mordvin peoples. Purgaz Syreś

 'Mordvins'; no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya) is an official term used in Russia and the Soviet Union to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928. While Robert

The Erzya language (эрзянь кель, eŕźań keĺ, pronounced [ˈerʲzʲanʲ ˈkʲelʲ]), also Erzian or historically Arisa, is spoken by approximately 300,000 people

contrasted at the Rosetta Project website: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and Erzya. The four largest ethnic groups that speak Finno-Ugric languages are the

The Erzyan native religion (Erzya: эрзянь пазнэнь озноматe, romanized: erzań pazneń oznomate), also called Erzyan neopaganism, is the modern revival of

are a subgroup of the Uralic languages, comprising the closely related Erzya language and Moksha language, both spoken in Mordovia. Previously considered

November 1959), also known as Stefan Erzia, was an Erzya sculptor who lived in Russia and Argentina. Erzya chose his pseudonym after the native ethnic group

Finnish, and Estonian. Other languages with speakers above 100,000 are Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Udmurt and Komi spoken in the European parts of the Russian

holdings. Mordovia was briefly united under the Principality of Purgaz, led by Erzya prince Purgaz, who fought against the colonisation of the region by Vladimir-Suzdal